Postgraduate

I have been supervising PhD and MA by Research students for more than a decade, as well as leading and teaching on taught postgraduate programmes. My approach to supervision is dialogic and supportive. Postgraduate researchers are the future of academia and I believe that supervision is a collaborative rather than didactic process .

 

My current supervision includes projects on transnational cultural flows in British Taiko drumming; transnational and transmedia narratives in The Witcher; post-millennial teen and coming of age cinema; Native American and First Nation visual and performance artists; and neurodivergent film genre practice.

 

I am keen to discuss proposals with prospective postgraduate researchers in areas related to film and media, especially in transnational cinema, genre media, global cinemas, media technology and change or more generally about film theory or practice. Please get in touch if you're interested in working with me on a postgraduate research degrees. You can also read more about York St John's PGR School here.

 

Completions:

• Gavin Wilson (PhD), Cell/ular Cinema: Individuated Production, Public Sharing and Mobile Phone Film Exhibition, 2015

• Tom Kirby (MPhil), 'Spectacle in the Cinematic Documentary', 2023

• Joanna Starzynski (MRes), “We’re all in our private traps… and none of us can ever get out” (Psycho, Hitchcock, 1960) - How depictions of Identity and Alienation in the City vary within the films of Alfred Hitchcock, 2016

• Lewis Kellett (MRes) Nostalgia in the British Cinema: The Significance of Nostalgia in the Social Realist Filmmaking Tradition with a Focus on the Work of Shane Meadows, 2018

• Kristine Brence (MRes) 1990s U.S. Pacific Northwest: Design of Art Chantry, 2022

• Jack Watson (MRes) Survival of the System 1910-1960: How a Blend of Factors Contributed to the Survival of the Hollywood Studio System, 2022

• Chantele Hodson (MRes), 'An Investigation into Media Representation of the Female Psychopath – with an insight into Killing Eve', 2023

• Joshua Roberts (MRes), ‘Resisting Toxic Masculinity in God of War’, 2024